What is recorded here

Maunvough holds one rectangular standing stone at the SW corner of a children's burial ground, facing north-south above the Owennashingaun valley. A second stone stood four metres west until removed in the 1960s, leaving the first to mark that lost edge alone. The valley drops away beneath a NW-facing hillslope, where pasture grass grows around a place set apart for the smallest dead.

In pasture, on a break on a NW-facing hillslope overlooking the valley of the Owennashingaun River. This standing stone (1m x 0.4m; H 0.65m) is rectangular in plan and is orientated N-S. It is situated at the SW corner of a children's burial ground (CO119-103001-). A possible standing stone (CO119-103----), which was removed in the 1960s, was located c. 4m to the W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Probably dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had a ritual or territorial function. Its orientation and location on a prominent hillside suggest it could have been part of a wider landscape of ceremonial or waymarking features.

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